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views of his brother-saint, as a kindly subterfuge on the account 

 of Divus Thomas, and that he affirms his own view to be that 

 which is supported by the authority of the Fathers of the Church." 



Mivart, In his Lessons from Nature, has replied 

 to Huxley, claiming that while Suarez rejected Au- 

 gustine's view as to the fact of Creation, he testifies 

 as to the vaHdity of the principles on which the 

 doctrine of derivative Creation reposes."^ Yet he is 

 not able to controvert Huxley's exposition of Sua- 

 rez' real opinions ; he does controvert Huxley's state- 

 ment that Suarez is a leading authority, and quotes 

 Cardinal Norris and others upon the views of Au- 

 gustine, Albertus Magnus, and Thomas Aquinas, to 

 the effect that these teachers are still the standards 

 upon these questions. 



The truth is that all classes of theolosfians de- 

 parted from the original philosophical and scientific 

 standards of some of the Fathers of the Church, 

 and that Special Creation became the universal 

 teaching from the middle of the sixteenth to the 

 middle of the nineteenth centuries. It is the recent 

 establishment of Evolution which has led to the 

 revival of Augustine's broad and true interpretation, 

 and there is no doubt that Mivart's contention so 

 far as the older writers are concerned is correct. 



"^ Lessons from Nature. London, 1876. Page 447. 



